Java > Scala

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 18-12-2011 21:08, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Walter Bright Wrote:
>
>> On 12/18/2011 11:00 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>> Walter Bright Wrote:
>>>> I find this an odd statement because the Java VM is written in C, so therefore
>>>> it is on the same or fewer platforms than C.
>>>
>>>
>>> Which specific Java VM are you talking about?
>>>
>>> They come in all flavors, written in Assembly, C, C++ and even Java.
>>
>> I thought they were all written in C.
>
>
> The SunSpot VM is written in Java with a very small subset of C code.
> http://www.sunspotworld.com
> http://labs.oracle.com/projects/squawk/squawk-rjvm.html
>
> The Jikes RVM is written mostly in Java.
> http://jikesrvm.org/Presentations
>
> The Maxime VM is written mostly in Java
> http://148.87.46.199/projects/maxine/
>
> The Oracle/Sun HotSpot is written in C++
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotSpot
>
> And this is just a small list, as there are quite a few JVMs around.
>

It is also worth mentioning Joeq (not a Java VM per se, but it does 
support Java bytecode loading), which is written in Java.

- Alex